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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by sandworm101 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @07:27PM (#14679703)
You think the US is bad? Take a look at Canada. We aren't even speculating about highspeed rail. Ottawa-Toronto might be possible, but have a look at what Vancouver-Calgary would entail. Vancouver-Ottawa would probably mean laying more highspeed rail than China's entire network.
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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by greeneggs on Saturday July 01, 2017 @07:46PM (#14679794)
Vancouver to Ottawa is maybe 4500 km. China has 20,000 km of high-speed train lines, and is planning another 15,000 km by 2025.

http://www.economist.com/news/china/21714383-and-theres-lot-...

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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by leemailll on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:16PM (#14679925)
Do you know how big china is?
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